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The 2025 stories in northern Illinois you read most

Chicago Bears win first NFC North title since 2018

Thunderstorms will give way to snow possibly across northern Illinois as cold front moves in

How Chicago Bears’ Josh Blackwell found a niche on special teams to make game-winning plays

Chicago Bears vs. San Francisco 49ers: 5 storylines to watch in Week 17 matchup

Photos: 2025 in focus, best images of the year from our photographers across northern Illinois

No seventh heaven this time for cardiac Bears. Here’s what you need to know

Chicago Bears’ DJ Moore, Darnell Wright active against 49ers in Week 17

Friday Night Drive’s 2025 Team of the Year

2025 Friday Night Drive Offensive Player of the Year: Montini’s Israel Abrams

CCL/ESCC football: Here are top Class of 2027 prospects to watch

Notebook: Princeton’s Charlie Waca to be inducted into the IHSFCA Hall of Fame

Rich Miller: SAFE-T Act criticism after Blue Line attack is mostly misguided

Eye On Illinois: Justices suggest McLean County’s new family court be scaled statewide

Paperwork: Warning: This headline is a trick to get you to read me

Eye On Illinois: Federal grant money still coming to our leading universities

Toby Moore: For your benefit

Eye On Illinois: K-12 funding requests an exercise in understanding EBF, MCAT, SCGP and more

Eye On Illinois: To what extent can government reduce otherwise preventable maternity deaths?

Wolter: Early development of the telephone in north-central Illinois

Kick off the new year with a First Day hike at northern Illinois state parks

5 Things to Do: New Year’s Eve events, last chance for holiday light shows

‘So evident he’s part of us’: Man searching for birth family finds 8 siblings – who embraced him as their own

Data centers, protests, a new pope and more: These 10 stories defined northern Illinois in 2025

Silvy: Happy holidays, Bears fans, and savor this merry football season

What Chicago Bears coordinators said Wednesday ahead of playing the 49ers